Zoey's Point Of View: 

"Dick..." Destery glares at Liam and I knew he was going to rip him one as I got ready to go after Caitlin. 

"Fucking seriously..." giving Liam a dirty look I hurried after my best friend. Getting to the only closed door I tried the door handle, but it was locked so I knocked. 

"Kitty, open up" I paused and waited for her to open the door. 

"Kitty... open up..." I knocked a couple more times until I felt panic bubble up inside of my chest. 

"K-kitty...? Kitty. KITTY. OPEN UP!" I bang on the door and that's when Des and Nate appear beside me. 

"What's wrong?" 

"Kitty won't open up-" 

The boys turned to the door and started to knock on it also, "Kitty - open up its Nate, Des and Zoo-" 

"Go away" I heard a small voice say from the other side of the door. 

"Caitlin, please..." 

"I'm trusting you, don't do anything stupid" I step away from the door before I pinched the bridge of my nose as I tried not to either flip out or cry because of how broken she sounded. 

"I'm not!" Des growls before he kicks and punches the door, "Caitlin, open up. I have kept my promise to not to tell them anything - but I swear to Princess Zelda that if you don't let me in, I'll tell them"  

What?! What does he mean by that?! 

Narrowing my eyes at the back of Des' head as Nate slinks out of view, "Tell us what?" I put my hands on my hips as I narrowed my eyes at the back of Des' head. 

The door is opened and Des gets yanked into it before it slams shut. Slowly I turned around to see Nate staring at me, our eyes connect and his eyes widened as he threw his hands up in the air as an 'I surrender pose', "Don't look at me like that - I don't know what they're talking about!" 

Glancing back over to the door I shook my head and walked away, straight past the other boys as I headed down the hallway to leave the hotel, "Zoey - wait up!"  

Turning I see Nate jogging over to me as he skids to a stop in front of me, "Zoey, I know we don't know each other very well... but I need to tell you something about Kitty - well what I know anyway" 

"What?" 

"Have you noticed that she's.... different? Behavioural wise and things?"  

"How the fuck should I know?! I haven't been around her much lately because she was hanging you with you and Des" I spat at him and he scratches the back of his head before he looks at the carpet under our feet. 

"I'm sorry... it's just... we haven't seen her in a year and a half, and, well... Des and I may have flipped out when we saw the video of her online with that guy who kidnapped her" 

"Video? What video?!" 

"You know, her and that guy that kidnapped her - I'm sure you saw it - never mind. Look, okay, just... look at the way she reacts to things, it isn't her normal behaviour from before, right? For example, with that British guy who yelled at her - she shrunk back as if he was the Grudge, she normally wouldn't shrink back. She would have stepped forward and put him through a window or kicked his ass - or something!" Nate ranted and my mind clicks. 

"Ohh, that video. Yeah, I know she's not going to be the same, either not for a very long time or never. And it'll only get worse unless she talks to someone - or get counselling. But she won't talk to anyone - not even me, but that Destery guy - he fucking knows something and I want to know what it is!" I rant back to Nate and he nods. 

"You've noticed it too, that's good 'cause I thought I was crazy - yes Destery knows something, but I know for a fact he hasn't told her what happened when she was with him. All I know is something else happened between then and now that Des knows about. We all know how Kitty is - she won't tell us anything because she doesn't want to make us 'upset' or be 'burdened' by things that she either thinks, or happens to her... has she told you anything?" 

I bowed my head and leaned against the wall, "She hasn't told me a thing. I know how her trust has gotten fucked up quite badly, but I've known her my entire life - doesn't that mean a thing to her? If she was going to trust someone... why wouldn't it be me?" I look up at Nate and he gives me a sad smile. 

"Maybe she just doesn't want to tell you because she knows you might blame yourself for what happened to her, or maybe she's just scared you'll think differently of her - I don't know sorry, she's got a strange mind. One that's very hard to understand when it comes to this type of thing - or anything really" 

I narrowed my eyes at Nate and pushed away from the wall, "I would never think of her differently! Nothing that bastard did would ever change how I think of her! She's my other half, my sister and she can confide in me with anything... but I thought she already knew that" 

"Then maybe she's trying to protect you?" 

"Protect me -from what?" 

"The things that haunt her"  

"No, protecting... me? She can't do that - she can't go and decide what I can and cannot know when she's obviously suffering from it. I'm older - I'm the one that protects her. That's how it's always been" I growled at him angrily.

"Maybe she just wants to protect you this time - to repay a debt or something?" Nate looks down at me with a frown on his face as he continues to think about Caitlin and our little scenario, "In her mind - maybe she's doing this to protect you, or she just doesn't know how to say things out loud. The whole time she was with me and Des, she was acting like her old self - but her eyes were dead, no spark or life in them. I think you just need to take it slow with her, I heard that you guys will be staying in different places because the nutters still out there? Well, tell whoever is going to stay with her that to handle her with care, not to snap at her or to show dominance around her because that's what seems to terrify her - even if she tries to hide it" 

I huffed, crossing my arms over my chest, "I still think its bullshit that they're trying to keep us in separate places" 

Nate chuckles, "Of course, you two are basically two peas in a pod - but just think about it from their point of view, if he finds one of you, he won't be able to get the other, meaning the other can go and save one the he's found" Nate gives me an awkward yet comforting half smile. 

I pulled him into a hug as he stiffens in shock, "Thanks" I whisper to him before I pulled back and started for the hotel room again, but once I entered the only thing that caught my eyes was the fact Des and Liam were screaming at each other... well... shit. 

Caitlin's Point Of View: 

"Caitlin..." I refuse to look up at Des as he tried to con me into looking up into his face and admit my 'fears' - as he calls them. 

"Come on, I know - I know okay?" he rubs my back and I bit the inside of my cheek as his hand pressed down on my clothes that then rubbed against my even skin. 

Quickly I tried to get rid of my tears and Des froze before he pulled me into a hug, "He's not going to hurt you - okay? He's just some wanker in a boy band; he won't hurt a hair on your head Kitty" 

Furiously I tried to get the salty tears off of my face as I shook my head, Des pulled me in tighter and made me bury my head in the crook of his neck as my hands became pinned between both of our chests. 

"Kitty-" 

"No, no, no" I tried to push away from him, but he made sure not to let me move. 

"Kitty - he's the guys that's the father of the group, right? He won't ever hurt you-" 

"He did Des, he did hurt me. He put me in the cellar - he -he -" I tried to gather myself as I tried to with every single fight left in my body to push the images out of my head of Liam handcuffing me up in the cellar to the guy who had kidnapped me, the fear has been planted in my mind and now I can't get rid of it. 

What if Liam becomes... like Peter? 

"What?" after a moment Des pulls away from me and drops me on the bed, "Stay here" 

"What - Des what are you-" before I could finish he stormed out of the room. 

Gasping I ran out after him to stop him from whatever he's about to do, running into the lounge room I found the boys both yelling at each other - I really need to work on my running, because I am super slow at that - off topic Caitlin! 

"NO! DES - STOP!" I screamed as Des tackled Liam to the ground. 

Zoo quickly sprang forward to stop them from fighting, but Louis and Finn grabbed onto her as I watched the two guys roll on the ground - trying to knock the other guy out from what it seems like. 

But then Des pins Liam down, "YOU BASTARD! HOW COULD YOU FUCKING DO THAT TO HER?!" Des screams before he punched Liam in the face. 

Running over to the two as Liam glared up at him with a bloody nose and a cut lip I grabbed onto Des' hand - a bit scared to be honest that he'd turn and hit me, "Destery!" I yelled while trying to stop him from hitting Liam again. 

"No Caitlin - he hurt you-" 

"You're hurting me" I mumble as I continue to try to pull his fist away from Liam because I don't want to see him hurt even further than - Caitlin. Stop. 

"Des - please don't hurt him - anymore" he turns and stares at me, his knuckles purple and bloody shook, "Don't..." 

"I won't, I promise. But you need to go back to your room now; I'll be there in a minute, okay?' 

"No I-" 

"I promise I won't hit him again" Des swore and I slowly let his hand go. 

"O-okay..." with that I hurried out of the room where everyone seemed to have their eyes glued to me and climbed onto my bed. 

Zoey's Point Of View: 

Kitty leaves the room and Des turns around and glares at Liam, who he was still on top of might I add. Louis and Finn still held onto me tightly, as if I'll go over there and rip the two idiot's heads off... that will happen later. 

"You need to protect her, respect her, don't hurt her, don't scare her, love her - because right now, I see that you can't even do that right now. If you can't even do the simple thing of love her without making her absolutely terrified of you, she can go to one of the other boys. Do you hear me? Don't fuck it up with her any further than you have already - because from what I've seen, she deserves so much better than you" Des growled before he storms out of the room, leaving an battered Liam Payne on the ground - stunned. 

"Okay...? Does anyone know what the hell just happened?" Nate asks everyone. 

"Nope" we all chorused in perfect unison. 

"Okay then... Liam? Care to explain it to my rather slow mind? What did you do to Caitlin, I don't care how far back it was - just list all of the bad shit you've done to her" 

"Nothing" Liam grumbles, slowly sitting up as he pokes his swollen face. 

"Excuse me?" I sass, putting my hand on my hip as I cocked it to the side, "Don't forget you have a witness - and a victim right here bucko" 

Liam stiffens but didn't say a word, "Liam... the fuck did you do, bitch?" Nate joins in on my sass fest and we both glare at Liam, ready to hear the beans that he's going to be spilling. 

"Uhh...." 

"Are we going to have to injure you, amigo?" Nate says in a really good Spanish accent. 

"N-no" 

"Then, tell me" 

"Why should I?" Liam scowls at us before he slowly stands up, wincing. 

"Fine then, Nate - did you know that it's now one day, meaning that there's only one more to go and Kitty will be getting married?" 

"What do you mean Zoey?" Nate asks me innocently and I smirked as we both glanced at Liam. 

"Well, three guys like her - and now that Liam doesn't want to come clean and heal the past, that's a defiant deal that he's now out of the competition with the three guys. I say my money's going to be on-" 

"NO! WAIT!" we looked to see that Liam's eyes were bulging out of his head as Nate and I stared at him in amusement. 

Nate then bends down and whispers in my ear, "You're brilliant - we should prank Des and Caitlin one day" I nod and we continue to stare at Liam. 

"I might have... locked... Caitlin in our cellar..." Liam awkwardly twitched under the large groups eyes as we stared at him. 

"And me - don't forget about me and the fact I nearly got rust poisoning from that" I narrowed my eyes at Liam as he gave me an awkward, half smile. 

"Yeah... what she said" 

Nate stares at him for a second, completely unamused by Liam being a jerk, "Well... you're an ass hole" 

"And it was all because we went to the mall" I dobbed Liam in some more. 

"Dude.... The fuck" Nate advances on Liam and bends down to his sight, "So, you just decided that they both needed a lesson, did ya? You know, I'm not even sure if I can even trust you to keep her safe" Nate scoffs in Liam's face. 

"I CAN!" Liam yells. 

"PROVE IT" Nate screams in Liam's face and I tense a bit at the intensity of the conversation. 

"Fine! I'll take Caitlin to a place no one knows, but me! I'll make sure she's safe!" Liam yells. 

Nate takes a step back before he turns and smirks at me, "Well, that wasn't too hard" 

"What...?" everyone basically scratched their heads in confusion - well, Nate did just get Liam to basically admit he liked Kitty with the whole 'I'll protect her' thing, that and now he's willing to take her somewhere... I can smell the fucking wedding cake already. 

"Just don't fuck it up or I will personally kick your ass to another planet" Nate threatens. 

"Yep, and if you do fuck it up, I'm sure Jack and Dan will like to have permission to have a shot with her... after Des and I have a little chat beforehand" 

"LOL DIS IS SRS BSNS BRAH" I yelled 

"I - what?" Nate gives me a weird look as I beamed at him. 

"Lol, I'm an alien" I put my hands on my hands on my head and started to waddle around. 

"Yeah... alien..." Nate giggles and turns to whisper in Liam's ear before he gets up and walks out of the room without another word.... Nate's a weird person... but he did fix some things up for Liam to actually get Caitlin and him to date and also showed me some new things I need to start thinking about... like how I'm going to get Kitty to open up. Pray for me - because this isn't going to be easy.

Preview for the next chapter:

. "I love you"

. "No promises"

. "I've missed chu!"

. "We'll protect you"

. "... he's dead"

. "How are you supposed to protect me?"

. "Please... stay..."

. "Caitlin, shh, it's me, it's Harry"

. "My doll, I lost it when I was six..."

. "LIAM!"

. "Caitlin! Calm down!"

. "You're not Liam..."